Author: Stackpole, Peter (1913 - 1997)
Title: Herbert Hoover Circa 1934 Sleeping During Graduation at Stanford or Uc Berkeley. Original Photograph. Titled by the Photographer
Description: Circa 1934 Printed by the photographer in 1991. Silver gelatin print. 12.5 x 8.7cm. Printed by Peter Stackpole for his Oakland Museum exhibition in 1991.. In 1991 the photographer titled the photo verso "Graduation at Stanford Hoover Asleep." However the LA Times and SF Chronicle credit Berkeley in Stackpole's 1997 obituary: "A key picture in 1934--a shot of President Herbert Hoover snoozing at a University of California commencement--provided his break. Although Oakland Tribune Publisher William Knowland refused to print the picture, Time magazine bought it..." This is reduced format photograph that may have been included in the 1991-1992 Oakland Museum exhibition. Not reproduced onthe exhibition catalogue entitled: Peacetime, Wartime & Hollywood. Photographs of Peter Stackpole." Stackpole was LIFE’s chief Hollywood photographer from 1938 until 1951, when he moved east to work in the magazine’s New York office. Over the course of his career, 26 of his images graced the cover of LIFE. Stackpole’s work resulted in several book publications, including The Bridge Builders (1985), and Peter Stackpole, Life in Hollywood 1936-1952 (1991).. In 1987, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art included much of his work in their exhibition The Hollywood Photographers... With the Oakland Museum label on verso with printed titles and captions by Peter Stackpole. In 1991 the Oakland Museum held a double exhibition of Stackpole's work including "Peacetime to Wartime" and "Mr. Stackpole Goes to Hollywood." According to the Center for Creative Photography "It was the Oakland Museum's double exhibition..that saved a significant portion of Stackpole's work from the 1991 fire that devastated Oakland, including the photographer's home. .

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